BattleTechWiki:Project Maintenance
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Project Maintenance is a resource for the (almost neverending) vital part of keeping BTW running optimally. As most of these tasks can be done by any user, anyone can assist the senior editors and admins in maintaining BTW.
Contents
New Items[edit]
Maintenance Categories that are automatically populated[edit]
Note: These categories are automatically populated by the MediaWiki software
- Category:Indexed_pages (2)
- Category:Noindexed_pages (7)
- Category:Pages_using_duplicate_arguments_in_template_calls (8)
- Category:Pages_with_too_many_expensive_parser_function_calls (2)
- Category:Pages_containing_omitted_template_arguments (0)
- Category:Pages_where_template_include_size_is_exceeded (1)
- Category:Pages_with_broken_file_links (33)
- Category:Pages_where_node_count_is_exceeded (0)
- Category:Pages_where_expansion_depth_is_exceeded (0)
- Category:Pages_with_ignored_display_titles (5)
- Category:Pages_using_invalid_self-closed_HTML_tags (3)
- Category:Pages_with_template_loops (13)
- Category:Pages_with_reference_errors (9)
- Category:Pages_with_script_errors (30)
- Category:Scribunto_modules_with_errors (0)
- Category:Pages_with_syntax_highlighting_errors (314)
- Category:TemplateStyles_stylesheets_with_errors (0)
- Category:Pages_with_TemplateStyles_errors (1)
- Category:Pages_generating_RSS_feeds (0)
- Category:Hatnote templates with errors (0)
Extensions[edit]
- Remember the Extensions that are already installed can be seen here
Extensions that are unmaintained and may need to be replaced[edit]
- mw:Extension:SpecialUserScore --> mw:Extension:Contribution Scores
- mw:Extension:SphinxSearch --> mw:Extension:GoogleSiteSearch or mw:Extension:CirrusSearch
- mw:Extension:DynamicPageList (third-party) --> mw:Extension:DynamicPageList3 (or uninstall it as mw:Extension:Semantic MediaWiki does much the same thing though not as simply)
- mw:Extension:WikiArticleFeeds --> Remove as RSS feeds have been part of Mediawiki installs since 1.23+
Extensions that may require updates[edit]
- mw:Extension:NativeSvgHandler
- mw:Extension:Purge
- mw:Extension:Page Forms
- mw:Extension:Replace Text
- mw:Extension:UserMerge
- mw:Extension:Semantic Scribunto
- mw:Semantic Result Formats
Extensions that may need additional configuration[edit]
- mw:Extension:ContactPage - It is suppose to generate Special:Contact, however it seems to have not been working for sometime.
- mw:Extension:Semantic Glossary - Our install doesn't appear to have to have the type of properties it's suppose to use configured.
- mw:Extension:Lingo - It doesn't seem that it's default page to use is working correctly, and it would additional configuration with mw:Extension:Semantic Glossary.
- mw:Extension:Interwiki - Needs more interwiki links to work as seen on Special:Interwiki.
- mw:Extension:TitleBlacklist - Needs to have it's whitelist and it's blacklist config pages modified.
- mw:Extension:PageImages - It seems that we may need to add the images used in various templates to this extension's deny list. that way they aren't mistaken for the page's image.
Extensions that are requested[edit]
- mw:Extension:MobileFrontend
- mw:Extension:ModernTimeline
- mw:Extension:Semantic Cite
- mw:Extension:Semantic Meta Tags
- mw:Extension:Validator
- mw:Extension:Bootstrap
Extensions that are requested but require a MediaWiki version update[edit]
- mw:Extension:SocialProfile
- mw:Extension:Maps
- mw:Extension:Semantic Extra Special Properties (Possibly to enable this sort of thing)
- mw:Extension:Semantic Bundle (a bundle install of Semantic Mediawiki Extensions and other extensions that use them)
- mw:Extension:SimpleBatchUpload
- mw:Extension:SubPageList
- mw:Extension:External Content (Would allow for pages to pull their content for external sources, namely our use would be the pulling of content from a git repo for example)
Maintenance tasks[edit]
- If you are looking into creating or modifying articles the tracking categories in BattleTechWiki:Project Cleanup will be your best bet to find those.
Needs Review[edit]
Needs Fixing[edit]
Needs Category[edit]
- Special:UncategorizedCategories
- Special:UncategorizedFiles
- Special:UncategorizedPages
- Special:UncategorizedTemplates